DrewZ intro post and Kessil Ap700 schedule thread

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Hey everyone!

Glad to have joined such a large reefing community that has the same passion I do! First off I have been into reefing for a little over a year as of today, started with fresh and lost intrest over time and loved the color of a reef. So I started with a 29 biocube and outgrew it quickly but learned a lot from it. Then drilled my 90 that was previously a freshwater tank to prepare it for a reef. Built the stand, filtration, and enjoyed every second of it. But as usual I wanted bigger... after a failed attempt at a90gallon cube(failed seem) I got a screaming deal on a 180 reef ready and that is what I am currently running. i will get into all the details in a day or so and edit the post as I have my family staring at me waiting to watch a movie

Another reason for this thread is to see everyone's schedule for their AP700 and what tank they are running it on. I have had ok luck and have had great success with some corals and not other. I have searched high and low for people's schedules and their experiences with no luck. I know other lights like Aqua illumination(AI) have ways of sharing and uploading schedules from other users and I would love it if Kessil could do the same.

Anyhow please post up your tank specs and lighting schedules for you AP700!

I have 2 ap700's above my 6' 180 gallon. They are 12" above he water. With the following schedule in the pictures. Only corals I have had problems with are acros (didn't light acclimate them), Acans (they do fine in my frag tank that has the same water), and Duncan's.

Awesome! I have them at 12" because that's what a local guy recommended lol I had them at 16" before. I forgot to mention I have slight diffusers on them as well. Thank you for posting your schedule though! Yours peaks for much longer than mine, I might have to make a few adjustments

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Awesome! I have them at 12" because that's what a local guy recommended lol I had them at 16" before. I forgot to mention I have slight diffusers on them as well. Thank you for posting your schedule though! Yours peaks for much longer than mine, I might have to make a few adjustments

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Unfortunately I do not have access to a par meter, but would like to eventually get one. Reason being is everything flourishes in my frag tank that is connected to the 180. And I am unable to lower the lights at the moment until I get some more cable, I trimmed the access [emoji107]. But here are some pictures [emoji106]. Tank is 2 months old

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I built a wall mount with black gas pipe. Ive had to buy them before and I got the cable at my local hardware store, so it's no big deal just a matter of time. But as far as the light spilling out I don't think too much gets out.

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Tank update- decided to reconfigure the plumbing in my refugium and add a 3" sandbed for my mangroves and change up my macro algae to dragons breath(picking up today). Possibly going to make it a angler tank as well.

Also depending on how the dragons breath does I was contemplating on doing some feather caulerpa in the fuge. Only issue with that is them going sexual due to lighting schedule. As of now it is on 21hrs off 3

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Tank update- decided to reconfigure the plumbing in my refugium and add a 3" sandbed for my mangroves and change up my macro algae to dragons breath(picking up today). Possibly going to make it a angler tank as well.

Also depending on how the dragons breath does I was contemplating on doing some feather caulerpa in the fuge. Only issue with that is them going sexual due to lighting schedule. As of now it is on 21hrs off 3